St Swithun's Prep School HPL day is underway. @StSwithunsYear5 are planning wonderful honeymoons for Miss Webb. #imagination #bigpicturethinking #HPLSchoolTakeover #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre

St Swithun's Prep School We are using our automaticity and our speed and accuracy skills to bake cakes. @StSwithunsPrepYear1 #HPLSchoolTakeover #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #Realising

We had plan our strategy to work out who could sit next to each other and who we really had to keep apart!! Fabulous seating plan! #Metathinking #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #HPLSchoolTakeover

.St Swithun's Prep School The girls are having fun using their creating skills to design a hat and bag to wear for Miss Webb’s wedding. @StSwithunsPrepYear3 #HPLSchoolTakeover #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #fluentthinking #flexiblethinking

Of course, there had to be baking! We made the most of our automaticity skills to apply our maths knowledge in order to work out what we needed to bake cupcakes. Yum! #Realising #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #HPLSchoolTakeover

.St Swithun's Prep School Year 4 have had to show perseverance to complete their metathinking challenge. @StSwithunsPrepYear4 #metacognition #strategyplanning #HPLSchoolTakeover #StSwithunssItsWhoWeAre

St Swithun's Prep School Pre school and Reception have shown excellent creating skills, designing and making their hats and bags. @StSwithunsPrepRecpt #fluentthinking #flexiblethinking #HPLSchoolTakeover #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre

.St Swithun's Prep School What a fab day Year 1 have had. Excellent HPL skills. #metathinking #analysing #creating #realising #HPLSchoolTakeover @StSwithunsYear1

We had to use our best problem solving and critical and logical thinking to work out how to create a moving car that could seat 4 people. Some of us got carried away with the air bags and Mr B had to get his Spheros in there somewhere!!! #STSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #HPLSchoolTakeover

.St Swithun's Prep School . What a day it has been! We have been linking, analysing, creating, realising and meta-thinking. The girls have thoroughly enjoyed using their HPL skills to solve the problems and get the guests to the wedding on time! #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre #HPLSchoolTakeover

‘This is the race we need to win’ Over 50 global Olympians and Paralympians from Tokyo 2020 have come together to encourage ambitious action from our World Leaders COP26 climate summit this fortnight. #DearLeadersoftheWorld #Yoursathletesoftheworld #strongertogether #COP2

Exciting news: tomorrow, #Maiden will be loaded onto the ship ‘Lotus A’, destined for #Dubai - this is where Maiden and her new all female crew, skippered by Annie O’Sullivan, will commence the new DP World World Tour in early 2022 (full schedule TBA)!

We are hosting an open afternoon for our reception class on Friday 4 February at 1.45pm. Come and meet us and take a tour of the school. Please book your place now. #StSwithunsItsWhoWeAre stswithuns.com/preschool-pre-…

Record breaker and inspiration! Well done Zara FlyZolo

One highlight from #Maiden's time in Dubai came when they met another inspirational young woman: #ZaraRutherford, the 19 year old who today became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world! A huge congratulations to Zara for finishing her epic mission & inspiring so many!💪

With the shared goal of encouraging more young women and girls into #STEM subjects and empowering them to achieve their dreams, Maiden's crew were thrilled to welcome Zara onboard! #WomenInSTEM #MaidenInspires 🛫Read more about Zara's record here: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

We loved having @StSwithunsPresc with us this morning for their welly walk! Thank you for coming! St Swithun's Drama and St Swithun's PAC love to show people what we do over here #itswhoweare #wemakeevents #stswithunssenior

It is with great sadness that the St Swithun’s community expresses our deepest sympathies on the passing of our Queen Elizabeth. We give thanks for her life and for her years of dedicated service. Our prayers go to her family and we wish every blessing on our new King.

We will be welcoming visitors at 1.45pm on Friday 3rd of March. This open day is the perfect opportunity for you to experience the school during term time. To find out more or to sign up please email: [email protected]

The whole of the St Swithun’s community is shocked and saddened by the awful news from Epsom College. Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire community at this immensely difficult time.